Warp rebuilt the terminal emulator itself in Rust rather than adding AI on top of an existing one, which gives it GPU-accelerated rendering and a more modern interaction model than traditional terminals offer. Its Agent Mode turns plain-language requests into shell commands and can carry out multi-step tasks, while Warp Drive lets teams share commands, runbooks, and context the way a shared IDE workspace would.
Oz extends that further into orchestration: a cloud layer for running background agents that can work on tasks without tying up a developer's own terminal session, closer in spirit to a lightweight version of what dedicated coding agent platforms offer, but scoped around terminal and shell work specifically.
The terminal itself is free to use, with AI features metered through a credit system, giving Warp a path to being adopted broadly as a daily driver before charging specifically for the AI usage that costs money to run.